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G. DfSANl-"ORD.

"FIRE PLAGE HEATER.

No, 253,315. Patented Feb. 7,1882.

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G. D.'SA-NFORD.

FIRE PLACE HEATER.

No. 253,315. PaQtentedIeb. 7,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. SANFORD, OF PEEKSKILL, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WATSON SANFORD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FIRE-PLACE HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,315, dated February 7,1882,

' Application filed December 5, 1881. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. SANFORD, of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Place Heaters, which improvements are fullyset forth in the following speeification and accompanying drawings.

These improvements consist in a frame arranged on the front of the heater and through which the heat passes to the apartment in which the heater is placed.

In the drawings, which serve to illustrate my improvements, Figure l is a side view of my improved heater. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same, Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 is a front elevation. Fig. 5 is a side view of the heater, showing the casing broken away.

a is the body of the heater. bis the exterior casing surrounding such bod y.

c is a frame placed around the front edge, (1, of the casing in a position about where the front wall of the fire-place joins with the easing. This frame will project beyond the front wall and into theroom, and hascast all around it the series of open spaces 0 e, &c.' d is a division-plate connecting this frame with the top edge of the casing. At the rear and in the top of the casing is a damper, g, by which the heat is allowed to escape through a pipe into the upper apartment of the house. In the front of this division-plate and within the easing is a damper, h, by which the heat is allowed to come forward and through the open spaces body of 'the heater and within the casing b,

into which the products of combustion will be drawn and the heat more fully radiated therefrom on its passage to the chimney into theheat-reservoir inside of the casiu g I), because of the extra radiatin g surface obtained by the use of such drum.

7c is a section of a hollow sphere, which is located over and covers the feed-opening of the heater. It turns on trunnious Z lover another section, m, of the hollow sphere when it is desired to introduce coal into thefeed-magazine or the fire-pot of the heater. When the part is is drawn down, so as to close the feedopening, the construction has the appearance of one half of a hollow sphere, and I term it a helmet-top magazine feed-cover.

I claim- An extension-frame, c, constructed with a series of open spaces, e, in combination with the division-plate f and the casing of a fireplace heater',"s'ubs'tantially as and for the purpose described.

GEORGE D. SANFORD. Witnesses:

JAMES H. HUNTER,

E. S. MAILLER. 

